merge with the present

Merge with the present and forget everything else. Become the present so deeply that you no longer think of it as something you inhabit, but rather as yourself. The one who is doing the inhabiting is not the real you. That which is inhabited is.

If you already know what I'm talking about, don't let the following words obscure your sense of it. The following words are meant for the times when you don't know what I'm talking about, or when you want to reawaken to what I'm talking about.

What I'm talking about is a spiritual realization of the highest order, a state of total surrender to being alive. It puts the emphasis on being, and wipes away everything else, including any thought in your head about who being belongs to or pertains to.

That's how present you can be. You can merge with the present. You can enter the field of being so completely that you realize your true self there, as the field. It's a marvelous thing. All your suffering and problems don't exist there, and can't.

In other words, your suffering and problems don't belong or pertain to you either, not when you permit the word "you" its chief meaning, which is the present. That's who "you" are, and "you" just have to settle back into yourself to remember.

Yes, the illusion of not being present may recur afterwards. Or maybe it won't. In either case you have these words to remind you. They aren't the same thing as remembering for yourself, but actually they are. Whenever you remember, you'll see them that way.